Ali Karimi

Defensive Midfielder - Sepahan
12 Dec 2026
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Marked for Ali Karimi

14 Edition

The Sepahan Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match2 Nov 2026

Sepahan refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 23 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Mohammad Reza Akhbari says Sepahan went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match31 Oct 2026

8 unbeaten for Sepahan

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Sepahan did not have in the autumn.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Sepahan

Kaveh Rezaei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ali Karimi reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

$6.9M on the table at Sepahan

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

A promise honoured for Ricardo Alves

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sepahan told Ricardo Alves something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Loan watch2 Nov 2026

Amir Mehdi Maghsoudi counts the days

“I watch every Sepahan game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tractor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Hadi Mohammadi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Sepahan Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Aria Yousefi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sepahan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Hossein Goudarzi

Sepahan asked and Esteghlal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 14 in, 10 out at Sepahan

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

Saipa come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sepahan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Sepahan

Kaveh Rezaei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Morteza Gholizadeh is a square peg at Sepahan

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Sepahan are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mohammad Reza Akhbari slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Mohammad Reza Akhbari is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Ali Karimi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief